New asylum ‘crisis’ as Home Office errors add to avalanche of appeals

[ The Home Office’s unsuccessful scramble to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear an asylum backlog is leading to a new “crisis” with a rapidly expanding mountain of appeals threatening to clog up the tribunal system, i has learnt. Specialist lawyers have said there will not be enough of them to handle the extra cases … Read more

How inheritance tax works – and how a cut could affect you and your money

[ Inheritance tax is a tax on paid on the estate – essentially the property, money and possessions – of someone who’s died. The vast majority of the population do not pay inheritance tax at all because it’s only applied to estates over a certain threshold – the most recent statistics show less than 4 per … Read more

Rwanda has no intention of hosting UK asylum seekers, says opposition leader

[ The Rwandan government has no plans to host migrants deported from the UK, regardless of changes made to the deal, claims the leader of an opposition party formed in exile. “There is no intention or capacity in Rwanda to accommodate these people,” Etienne Mutabazi, secretary general of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), told i. … Read more